PBC News & Comment: Did Trump Imagine G-20 Trade Deal With China?

Trump claims he gave China 90-day reprieve on increased tariffs, says farm exports to resume, but Beijing has different story…--as Trump embarrassed us again at world forum, his dinner with Xi Jinping produced very different reports

--Trump has been getting reports from Manafort’s lawyers on his “cooperation” with Mueller investigators

--last week, Luke Harding and the Guardian reported, with no evidence, that Manafort had met with Julian Assange on 3 occasions; Caitlin Johnstone takes them to the woodshed

--Michael Cohen’s new guilty plea suggests that the contacts with Russians in 2016 were about the elusive Moscow hotel deal, not election scheming

--Comey negotiates rules for testimony to lame-duck House Intel committee

--Adam Schiff, who will chair that committee in January, calls for perjury investigation of Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi

--House Dems will lead with campaign finance and corruption reforms they know will be DOA in the Senate

--in Wisconsin, lame duck GOP legislators rush bills to limit power of newly elected Dem governor and attorney general